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The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
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An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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